Biography:
Karan Casey (b. 1969 in Ballyduff Lower, County Waterford, Ireland) is an Irish folk singer and jazz singer, and a former member of the Irish band Solas.
Her family encouraged her to sing in the house, in a church choir and at school. At Waterford Regional Technical College she studied piano then took music at University College Dublin in 1987. Having learned to copy Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing, she performed in a Dublin bistro several nights per week while still a student.
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Other songs:
- Ae Fond Kiss
- Another Day
- Bright Winters Day
- Distant Shore
- Dunlavin Green
- Eppie Morrie
- Erins Lovely Home
- Freedom Song
- I Once Loved A Lass
- Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
- Just A Note
- Lady Mary Anne
- Love Is Pleasing
- Martinmas Time
- Mother Earths Revenge
- One I Love
- Quiet Of The Night
- Roger The Miller
- Shamrock Shore
- She Is Like The Swallow
- Snows They Melt The Soonest
- Song Of Lies
- The Ballad Of Tim Evans
- The Cradle Song
- The Creggan White Hare
- The Curra Road
- The Four Loom Weaver
- The Keg Of Brandy
- The Kings Shilling
- The Liberty Tree
- The Loony Moon
- The Seasons
- The Silkie Song
- The Song Of The Seal
- The Song Of Wandering Aengus
- The World Looks Away
- The Yellow Furze
- This Time Will Pass
- Town Of Athlone
- Waiting For The Snow
- Weary Of Lying Alone
- When Will We All Be Free
- Where Are You Tonight I Wonder
- Who Put The Blood
- You Brought Me Up
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[Intro]
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
[Verse]
C F C G
It fell out upon one Martinmas time
C F C
When snow lay on the border
F C G
There came a troop of soldiers here
Am G
To take up their winter quarters
[Verse]
C F C G
And they road high and they rode north
C F C
And they rode o'er the border
F C G
And there they met with a nice, little girl
Am G
She was a farmer's daughter
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Verse]
C F C G
'Cause they made her swear a solemn oath
C F C
A salt tear in her eye
F C G
That she would come to the quarter gates
Am G
When no one would her spy
[Verse]
C F C G
But she's gone to the barber's shop
C F C
And to the barber's shop went soon
F C G
She bade them cut off her long, yellow hair
Am G
As short as any dragoon
[Verse]
C F C G
And she's gone to the tailor's shop
C F C
And dressed in soldier's clothes
F C G
With two long pistols down by her side
Am G
A nice little boy was she
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Instrumental]
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
[Verse]
C F C G
And she's gone to the quarter gates
C F C
And loudly she does call
F C G
"There comes a troop of soldiers here
Am G
We must have lodgings all"
[Verse]
C F C G
And the quartermaster, he comes down
C F C
He gives her half a crown-o
F C G
"Go find your lodgings in the town
Am G
Tonight there is no room"
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Verse]
C F C G
So she moved closer to the gates
C F C
And louder she does call
F C G
"Room, room, you gentlemen
Am G
We must have lodgings all"
[Verse]
C F C G
And the quartermaster, he comes down
C F C
He gives her eighteen pence-o
F C G
"Go find your lodgings in the town
Am G
Tonight here comes a wench-o"
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Instrumental]
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
[Verse]
C F C G
So she took a pistol from her side
C F C
She blew it loud and shrill-o
F C G
"You're all very free with your eighteen pence
Am G
Now you're not for a girl at all"
[Verse]
C F C G
And she took the garter from her knee
C F C
The ribbon from her hair-o
F C G
She tied them 'round the quarter gates
Am G
A token she'd been there-o
[Verse]
C F C G
And when they found that it was her
C F C
They tried to have her taken
F C G
She slapped her spurs to her horse's side
Am G
She galloped home a maiden
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Outro]
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
[Verse]
C F C G
It fell out upon one Martinmas time
C F C
When snow lay on the border
F C G
There came a troop of soldiers here
Am G
To take up their winter quarters
[Verse]
C F C G
And they road high and they rode north
C F C
And they rode o'er the border
F C G
And there they met with a nice, little girl
Am G
She was a farmer's daughter
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Verse]
C F C G
'Cause they made her swear a solemn oath
C F C
A salt tear in her eye
F C G
That she would come to the quarter gates
Am G
When no one would her spy
[Verse]
C F C G
But she's gone to the barber's shop
C F C
And to the barber's shop went soon
F C G
She bade them cut off her long, yellow hair
Am G
As short as any dragoon
[Verse]
C F C G
And she's gone to the tailor's shop
C F C
And dressed in soldier's clothes
F C G
With two long pistols down by her side
Am G
A nice little boy was she
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Instrumental]
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
[Verse]
C F C G
And she's gone to the quarter gates
C F C
And loudly she does call
F C G
"There comes a troop of soldiers here
Am G
We must have lodgings all"
[Verse]
C F C G
And the quartermaster, he comes down
C F C
He gives her half a crown-o
F C G
"Go find your lodgings in the town
Am G
Tonight there is no room"
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Verse]
C F C G
So she moved closer to the gates
C F C
And louder she does call
F C G
"Room, room, you gentlemen
Am G
We must have lodgings all"
[Verse]
C F C G
And the quartermaster, he comes down
C F C
He gives her eighteen pence-o
F C G
"Go find your lodgings in the town
Am G
Tonight here comes a wench-o"
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Instrumental]
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
[Verse]
C F C G
So she took a pistol from her side
C F C
She blew it loud and shrill-o
F C G
"You're all very free with your eighteen pence
Am G
Now you're not for a girl at all"
[Verse]
C F C G
And she took the garter from her knee
C F C
The ribbon from her hair-o
F C G
She tied them 'round the quarter gates
Am G
A token she'd been there-o
[Verse]
C F C G
And when they found that it was her
C F C
They tried to have her taken
F C G
She slapped her spurs to her horse's side
Am G
She galloped home a maiden
[Chorus]
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
F G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
[Outro]
C F C G C F C
C F C G C Em D G
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